My Gaming PC is not selling!!! Please Help.

[carmadman]

Because I built it for £320 and I want to make a profit

 

21 hours ago, X-System said:

It costs about £345 in new.

 

So, in used, it would cost £200~250.

I built it 2 months ago

 

21 hours ago, carmadman said:

I built it 2 months ago

and I have not used it much

[X-System]

2 minutes ago, carmadman said:

if I put in a GPU can I keep it at £345?

 

Which GPU?

[Bitter]

1 minute ago, carmadman said:

Because I built it for £320 and I want to make a profit

That's really not how selling things work. You need to either take a loss because you paid retail pricing and are not a professional computer assembler providing warranty so your time spent assembling isn't worth anything or you need to buy much cheaper parts and try to convince someone that it's worth more than you paid. Building and selling computers for profit isn't really a home operation, not with new parts. Maybe with used parts, more likely the best you can do is get systems that are broken or being thrown away and refurbish them to sell for profit but it's going to have to be a large volume and pretty thin profit margin once you figure in your own hourly pay rate.

[Bitter]

4 minutes ago, carmadman said:

I built it 2 months ago

You didn't make a good investment. The 2200GE was not a good purchase, it's a first gen Ryzen and not a great one.

3 minutes ago, carmadman said:

and I have not used it much

Doesn't matter, it's been used so now it's going to sell for used prices.

[carmadman]

2 minutes ago, X-System said:

Which GPU?

a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

[IkeaGnome]

8 minutes ago, Bitter said:

That's really not how selling things work. You need to either take a loss because you paid retail pricing and are not a professional computer assembler providing warranty so your time spent assembling isn't worth anything or you need to buy much cheaper parts and try to convince someone that it's worth more than you paid. Building and selling computers for profit isn't really a home operation, not with new parts. Maybe with used parts, more likely the best you can do is get systems that are broken or being thrown away and refurbish them to sell for profit but it's going to have to be a large volume and pretty thin profit margin once you figure in your own hourly pay rate.

@carmadman

Even with a new GPU, you'll still run into this. It'll be "used" because it's not new in box. I'm assuming by your name you're into cars. It's no different than buying a $400 car, putting a $300 exhaust in it then trying to resell it for $750+. It just wont happen without the infrastructure listed above.

If this pc breaks, how do you plan to warranty it?

[Commodus]

Just now, carmadman said:

and I have not used it much

But that still means it's used. Sorry to say, but you're unlikely to turn a profit — you might get most of your money back, but trying to sell a no-frills used PC for a profit is very difficult. Start bidding low on an auction site like eBay, and don't be surprised if you sell for less than £320.

[carmadman]

thanks for helping me

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[LogicalDrm]

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